Darren Aronofsky's visually stunning new film, 'Black Swan', tells us that while it may be terrifying and socially unacceptable to experience "black" feeling, when we try to be all "white" we only end up weak and frightened, incapable of passionate engagement with our world.

The Harry Potter saga, as well as 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy of books and movies, is a wonderfully complex fairy tale that can be understood as both an epic battle between good and evil as well as the externalization of internal emotional conflicts.

I’m pleased to introduce Movies and Mental Health with Joseph Burgo, Ph.D. This blog is devoted to looking at films — both recent, contemporary movies and the classics — as an avenue for examining different aspects of the human experience.